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sham - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: sham
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: artificial, counterfeit
Synonyms: adulterated, affected, assumed, bogus*, dummy, ersatz*, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, lying, make-believe, misleading, mock, phony, plaster*, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, simulated, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, untrue
Antonyms: real, true
Main Entry: sham
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hoax, trick
Synonyms: burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, false front, farce, feint, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, imitation, impostor, imposture, mock, mockery, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, sell, smoke*, snow job*, spoof, travesty, whitewash, fakery, hypocriticalness, jive*, pharisaism, phoniness, put-on
Main Entry: sham
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: trick; pull a hoax
Synonyms: act, affect, ape, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, create, fake, feign, imitate, invent, lie, mislead, mock, play possum*, pretend, put on, simulate, sucker, do a number, fake it, make like, put up a front, shuck and jive
Antonyms: tell truth
Main Entry: affectation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression
Synonyms: air, airs, appearance, facade, false front*, front, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, sham*, show, simulation, artificiality, going Hollywood, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, showing off
Antonyms: simplicity, naturalness
Main Entry: bastard
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: illegitimate
Synonyms: adulterated, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, baseborn, misborn, suppositious, ungenuine
Antonyms: legitimate
Main Entry: bluff
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deceive
Synonyms: affect, beguile, betray, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake*, feign, fool, humbug*, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, put on*, sham*, shuck*, simulate, snow*, take in*, trick, bunco, fake out, illude, jive*, psych out
Antonyms: come clean, reveal, tell truth
Main Entry: bogus
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: counterfeit
Synonyms: artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious, not what it is cracked up to be
Antonyms: authentic, genuine, real
Main Entry: caricature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated description in writing, drawing
Synonyms: burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation, lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche, ridicule, satire, sham, takeoff*, travesty, put-on, send-up
Main Entry: charlatan
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swindler
Synonyms: cheat, con, con artist, fake, fraud, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack, sham, imposter, rip-off artist
Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake, simulated
Synonyms: Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy*, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced*, won't fly, wrong
Antonyms: genuine, real, true
Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fake, forgery
Synonyms: actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, phony, pseudo, reproduction, sell*, sham, junque, put-on, simulacrum
Antonyms: reality, real thing
Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make deceitful imitation
Synonyms: Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, imitate, impersonate, knock off*, mimic, mint, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, act like, circulate bad money, do like, go like, make like, make money, mimeo, phony up, stat
Antonyms: be honest
Main Entry: cushion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pillow, pad
Synonyms: bolster, buffer, fender, hassock, mat, rest, seat, sham, beanbag, bumper, headrest, squab, woolsack
Main Entry: disguise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mask; misrepresent
Synonyms: affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters
Antonyms: expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask
Main Entry: dissemble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disguise, pretend
Synonyms: affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, dissimulate, double-talk*, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, hide, let on*, mask, pass, play possum*, pussyfoot*, put on an act*, sham*, shroud, signify, simulate, stonewall*, whitewash*, cover up, doublespeak, four-flush, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, shuck and jive
Notes: dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart
Antonyms: admit, allow
Main Entry: ersatz
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: artificial
Synonyms: bogus, copied, counterfeit, fake, false, imitation, manufactured, phony, pretended, sham, simulated, spurious, substitute, synthetic
Antonyms: genuine, real
Main Entry: fake
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: false, imitation
Synonyms: affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious, concocted, fabricated, invented
Antonyms: genuine, original, real, true, truthful
Main Entry: fake
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imposter, copy
Synonyms: actor, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick, bluffer, faker, four-flusher, gold brick, junque, put-on
Antonyms: original, reality
Main Entry: fake
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act*, sham, simulate, spoof
Main Entry: falsehood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness
Antonyms: truth
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